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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-07-19 15:34:30 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-07-23 09:04:54 -0300
commit39e7317e37f7f0be366d1201c283f968c17268da (patch)
tree4e70178c670cd978ba970d620d6eaf64023fca70 /tools/scripts
parentd95daf5accf4a72005daa13fbb1d1bd8709f2861 (diff)
downloadlinux-39e7317e37f7f0be366d1201c283f968c17268da.tar.gz
perf build: Do not use -Wshadow on gcc < 4.8
As it is too strict, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/28/253 and
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html, that takes into account
Linus's comments (search for Wshadow) for the reasoning about -Wshadow
not being interesting before gcc 4.8.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190719183417.GQ3624@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/scripts')
-rw-r--r--tools/scripts/Makefile.include9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
index 495066bafbe3..ded7a950dc40 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
+++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wno-system-headers
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wold-style-definition
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpacked
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wredundant-decls
-EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wstrict-prototypes
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-default
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-enum
@@ -69,8 +68,16 @@ endif
 # will do for now and keep the above -Wstrict-aliasing=3 in place
 # in newer systems.
 # Needed for the __raw_cmpxchg in tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+#
+# See https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/28/253 and https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html,
+# that takes into account Linus's comments (search for Wshadow) for the reasoning about
+# -Wshadow not being interesting before gcc 4.8.
+
 ifneq ($(filter 3.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),)  # make-3
 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -fno-strict-aliasing
+EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wno-shadow
+else
+EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow
 endif
 
 ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS), w),w)